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Tool-based Database Refactoring: Flyway vs. Liquibase

Tool-based Database Refactoring: Flyway vs. Liquibase

In a previous blog post I discussed the term “database refactoring” and some concepts that allow database refactoring to be supported by tools with the result of having a database schema that is versioned just like your software is.

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Monitoring the Error Rate of a Spring Boot Web Application

Monitoring the Error Rate of a Spring Boot Web Application

In my previous blog posts about creating monitoring metrics with Dropwizard Metrics and exposing them for the Prometheus monitoring application we already have gained a little insight into why monitoring is important and how to implement it.

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Exposing Metrics of a Spring Boot Application for Prometheus

Exposing Metrics of a Spring Boot Application for Prometheus

Monitoring is an important quality requirement for applications that claim to be production-ready. In a previous blog post I discussed how to expose metrics of your Spring Boot application with the help of the Dropwizard Metrics library.

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Exposing Metrics of a Spring Boot Application using Dropwizard

Exposing Metrics of a Spring Boot Application using Dropwizard

How do we know if an application we just put into production is working as it should? How do we know that the application can cope with the number of users and is not slowing down to a crawl?

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OpenID Connect

OpenID Connect

You may have already heard about OpenID Connect as the new standard for single sign-on and identity provision on the internet.

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Digital Signature in Java

Digital Signature in Java

Often you come across the requirement to validate integrity and authenticity of data that was sent digitally. Digital signatures are the solution to this requirement.

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